# std::filesystem::directory_entry::replace_filename

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void replace_filename( const std::filesystem::path& p ); | (1) | (since C++17)
void replace_filename( const std::filesystem::path& p, std::error_code& ec ); | (2) | (since C++17)

Changes the filename of the directory entry.

Effectively modifies the path member by path.replace_filename(p) and calls `refresh` to update the cached attributes. If an error occurs, the values of the cached attributes are unspecified.

This function does not commit any changes to the filesystem.

### Parameters

p | - | the path to append to the parent path of the currently stored path
ec | - | out-parameter for error reporting in the non-throwing overload

### Return value

(none)

### Exceptions

Any overload not marked `noexcept` may throw std::bad_alloc if memory allocation fails.

1) Throws std::filesystem::filesystem_error on underlying OS API errors, constructed with p as the first path argument and the OS error code as the error code argument.
2) Sets a std::error_code& parameter to the OS API error code if an OS API call fails, and executes ec.`clear`() if no errors occur.

### Example

Run this code

    #include <filesystem>
    #include <iostream>

    int main()
    {
        namespace fs = std::filesystem;
        {
            fs::directory_entry entry{"alpha"};
            std::cout << entry << '\n';
            entry.replace_filename("omega");
            std::cout << entry << '\n';
        }
        {
            fs::directory_entry entry{"/alpha/"};
            std::cout << entry << '\n';
            entry.replace_filename("omega");
            std::cout << entry << '\n';
        }
    }

Output:

    "alpha"
    "omega"
    "/alpha/"
    "/alpha/omega"

### See also

assign | assigns contents (public member function)
replace_filename | replaces the last path component with another path (public member function of `std::filesystem::path`)

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